Our Story

The Predata Story

Predata was founded to uncover and analyze the most valuable anticipatory intelligence from public data sources.

In 2015, the founding team and a group of Princeton engineers came together to build a technology solution that could parse publicly available data and generate indicators of risk. Together, they developed machine-learning algorithms that could not only quantify current security, political and financial trends, but could anticipate them as well.

Predata’s platform uses this technology to help clients across industries anticipate risks and identify opportunities. With offices in New York and Washington D.C. and our diverse team from the worlds of finance, data science, and international relations, Predata is now a rapidly growing company that’s helping solve some of the world’s most complex challenges.

Our Advisors


Ambassador (Retired) Douglas Lute
President, Cambridge Global Advisors, LLC; Senior Fellow, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School; former U.S. Ambassador to NATO; Lieutenant General, US Army (Retired)

Andrew Choi
Senior Technology Specialist, World Bank; Senior Fellow, Federation of American Scientists

Anne-Marie Slaughter
CEO, New America

Ashby Monk
Executive Director, Stanford Global Projects Center; Co-Founder, Long Game Savings

Emmanuel Derman
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and Director of the Financial Engineering Program at Columbia

Francis Landolf
Principal, Core Consulting

Jim Strugger
Experienced Derivates Professional, formerly at MKM Partners, Societe Generale, Susquehanna International Group, and Morgan Stanley

John McLaughlin
Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence, School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University

John Kringen
Consultant, Dyncorp International; former Director of Intelligence, CIA

Karen Mills
President, MMP Group; Senior Fellow, Harvard Business School; Former Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration

Kyle Bass
Founder and CIO, Hayman Capital Management

Lon Augustenborg
President, Novus Intelligence; former Senior Operations Officer, CIA

Mark Farrington
Global Macro PM

Marcel Kasumovich
Experienced Global Macro Investor; formerly of Soros Fund Management, Goldman Sachs, and the International Monetary Fund

Michael Vickers
Former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

Mike Kostiw
Senior Advisor, Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Neal Brady
Former Founder and CEO, Eris Exchange, and Executive Chairman, ErisX; former Managing Director, Global Head of Business Development, CME Group; Former Founder and CEO, Liquidity Direct Technology, acquired by CME Group

Nicholas J. Rasmussen
Senior Director for National Security and Counterterrorism Programs, The McCain Institute for International Leadership

Rear Admiral Michael Hewitt (Ret.)
CO-Founder & CEO IP3 Security

Our Investors

Predata is Now Part of FiscalNote

FiscalNote is the premier information services company focused on global policy and market intelligence. By combining AI technology, expert analysis, and legislative, regulatory, and geopolitical data, FiscalNote is reinventing the way that organizations minimize risk and capitalize on opportunity.

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